Having an inanimate object may, however, prove to be an interesting precedent.
In the case of The State of New York vs. Scott Free, counsel for Mr. Free stunned onlookers when he claimed that Mr. Free could not possibly have killed Mr. Innocent Victim because "People don't kill people, GUNS kill people".
The case was immediately dismissed and a 9mm Beretta known as KG772F93B was taken into custody and arrested for the murder.
Any unconventional viewpoint with which one agrees is termed visionary. Any unconventional viewpoint with which one disagrees is termed eccentric.
Many great visionaries have been considered eccentric because of a few of their views. Many eccentrics have been considered great visionaries because of a few of their views.
These two statements cannot be denied.
RMS is considered a great visionary. RMS is considered an eccentric.
These two statements cannot be denied.
RMS is considered an eccentric. RMS is considered a visionary
These two statements cannot be denied.
Let's face it, RMS is an eccentric visionary (or perhaps a visionary eccentric). Only RMS, or a mindless idiot, could possibly agree with ALL of RMS' views.
In the minds of many, the idea of Free Software paints him as a visionary genius, while the GNU/Linux thing paints him as a mouth-foaming, moon-howling loonie. Unfortunately, the whole GNU/Linux thing gets more press than than the Free Software thing.
Personally, I think that RMS is a nutter, but a nutter that we need.
I also think that Freedom in Software is more important than recognition for the GNU Project.
If RMS disagrees with me on that last point, I'd like to see him admit it publicly!
Y'know, I have heard that human flesh taste a little like pork (Papua New Guinean cannibals sometimes refer to human flesh as "Long Pig"), but I would never have imagined it to have an "orangitang".
I think you'll find that the Vancouver to which the original poster referred *is* in North America, no matter who is represented on anyone's twenty dollar bill. It's just not in the U.S.A.
Oh yeah, if you re-read his post, you'll find that he did specifically refer to NORTH America.
Thank you for pointing out that Villanueva is his family name, rather than Nuñez. That form of name construction is extremely unusual to anglophones, so we could probably be forgiven for thinking Nuñez is correct.
However, he did sign his letter Dr. David Villanueva Nuñez. I rather susupect that he worked very hard for his doctorate, so please, use the proper way of addressing Dr. Villanueva.
A lot of that has been in-house development, not software-for-sale, and indeed that's where most of the market for programmers is.
You raise an interesting point. While I have not had the opportunity to read the actual Bill (slashdotted, naturally), it seems from Dr. Nuñez' response, that it is aimed squarely at general purpose software such as operating systems, desktop software and servers.
I have to wonder whether the same rules and guidelines also apply to custom software commissioned by the government.
OK, so I have never even been to an internet cafe, but I think this idea might work.
Offer a back room for hire. This would be an isolated lan (optionally connected) with about 12-20 lan points dotted around the room and a matching number of desks and chairs.
You could hire it out for training courses, lan parties, or small user group meetings. If you had some spare machines, you could even run some basic courses yourself.
You could also use it to run $FRAGFEST tournaments for your regular gamers, offering free 'net time as prizes. (What rabid gamer wouldn't LOVE the chance to frag for bandwidth?)
During the off hours, leave it connected and let people bring in their laptops and do their research, correspondence or whatever.
Seriously, I used to do rotating shift work and typically sleep for 4 -6 hours a day. Occasionally when going from one shift to another, I would sleep for 12 or more hours. Waking up after a sleep like that is really confusing. I really couldn't tell whether the time on the clock referred to AM or PM.
But how, practically is this achievable on anything other than an administrative level? Running Linux and Star Office rather than Microsoft Windows and Office and employing sysadmins with the relative skills is all doable in the halls of power but how can open source be brought to the people?
The trickle-down effect is how. If it's policy that OSS be used in government offices, that policy then permeates to schools, libraries, police and armed forces, hospitals, and all manner of government and semi-government infrastructure. Also, anyone who wants to exchange documents with the government needs to do so in open and accessible formats, ruling out MS-Word, MS-Excel and similar proprietary formats (are there any other word processors or spreadsheets left which still use closed formats?) Get rid of the need to create and read those proprietary file formats and you remove the single largest incentive for license evasion*. OK so that may not be a huge number of people, but does become a significant proportion of those people who have any contact with computers.
* License evasion kinda sounds like tax evasion, which many people feel is a soft and victimless crime, just like copying copyrighted software. How about we use that instead of the harsher, more violent "piracy", eh?
This is a great idea, but your symbol, outside of the philosophy behind it, does not convey "openness". To my mind, the heavy bold outline enclosing the o and the c suggests restriction and lock in, which is probably not what you want to convey.
I would have suggested using a pair of open handswith their palms up, similar to the charades sign (sign language as well?) for a book. The open hands imply openness, of course, but also convey the impression of a gift, which is a much more positive idea.
As copylefted material is explicitly copyrighted as well, this symbol could still be used in conjunction with the traditional copyright symbol, and it would signify that there is more than just copyright to this work.
Well I'm not real sure about MCP's security model. But yes, the Burroughs boxes were stack based systems, so you're probably right about the security.
Sperry's OS-1100 was the one that had PC's running Xenix as system consoles. 0r perhaps the Xenix consoles weren't until OS-2200.
To be honest, I never really had that much to do with Sperry, Burroughs or Unisys kit. I just picked up a few snippets from a few of the people at work who did.
(back on topic)
I really have to wonder if "Tron" used the name MCP because of Burroughs' systems of the day, or if it was a pure coincidence. It even stands for he same three words in both cases.
Formatting, tables and graphics are not exclusive to Word. Hell, PDF is better if you need to send highly formatted material.
Agreed.
If you're collaborating together in Word, fine, but then two people have agreed on a format. RMS is asking that people not inflict the format on others who do not choose to use Word.
But Word does not even necessarily make things easier for collaboration.
Example: In a meeting with the IT staff of another company, we were discussing the contents of a particular MS Word document that they had sent us. But their fonts/default Word preferences/printers/whatever were slightly different from ours. So although we both used MS Word in order to be able to reference the same material efficiently, we weren't even on the same page...Literally.
Using PDF would probably have solved that little hassle.
If it's truly random data, this compression/decompression is actually VERY easy. Compression: Strip 99 bytes out of every hundred.
Decompression: Insert 99 random bytes in between every byte.
What's that? You want the SAME data back? Why does it matter? It's pure random data anyway!
Oh yeah. Have they announced a DE-compression routine yet? (I know "lossless" sort of implies that they have one, but I didn't see anything about decompression, only compression)
I am sceptical of this working for more developmentally mature organisms, especially in adult mammals, however. The nerve reattachment is tricky, and there is other stuff besides. Nerve cells need to be trained early in development.
Actually, I suspect that if they can get around the nerve reattachment problem, retraining the optic nerve and its related brain centres might not be too difficult.
The brain would probably correlate the signals from the new eye with the signals from the remaining natural eye, and begin to train itself that way. Perhaps even restoring true binocular vision. But only in a few rather limited circumstances.
Having no existing signal to provide such correlation would exclude people totally blind in both eyes.
If sight in both eyes had already begun failing do to a degenerative condition, the new eye would have a degraded signal to correlate against, and would quite possibly retrain to the same degraded standard.
It seems that this would be most useful in cases where a degenerative condition had been diagnosed prior to symptoms becoming too severe. Presumably, the new eye would not suffer from the same degenerative condition, and even though it is retrained to a degraded standard, would not degrade further.
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In the case of The State of New York vs. Scott Free, counsel for Mr. Free stunned onlookers when he claimed that Mr. Free could not possibly have killed Mr. Innocent Victim because "People don't kill people, GUNS kill people".
The case was immediately dismissed and a 9mm Beretta known as KG772F93B was taken into custody and arrested for the murder.
Many great visionaries have been considered eccentric because of a few of their views. Many eccentrics have been considered great visionaries because of a few of their views.
These two statements cannot be denied.
RMS is considered a great visionary. RMS is considered an eccentric.
These two statements cannot be denied.
RMS is considered an eccentric. RMS is considered a visionary
These two statements cannot be denied.
Let's face it, RMS is an eccentric visionary (or perhaps a visionary eccentric). Only RMS, or a mindless idiot, could possibly agree with ALL of RMS' views.
In the minds of many, the idea of Free Software paints him as a visionary genius, while the GNU/Linux thing paints him as a mouth-foaming, moon-howling loonie. Unfortunately, the whole GNU/Linux thing gets more press than than the Free Software thing.
Personally, I think that RMS is a nutter, but a nutter that we need.
I also think that Freedom in Software is more important than recognition for the GNU Project.
If RMS disagrees with me on that last point, I'd like to see him admit it publicly!
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Y'know, I have heard that human flesh taste a little like pork (Papua New Guinean cannibals sometimes refer to human flesh as "Long Pig"), but I would never have imagined it to have an "orangitang".
I think you'll find that the Vancouver to which the original poster referred *is* in North America, no matter who is represented on anyone's twenty dollar bill.
It's just not in the U.S.A.
Oh yeah, if you re-read his post, you'll find that he did specifically refer to NORTH America.
Seppo fuckwit!
I have this image of blond-haired, blue-eyed, continents goosestepping their way around the globe
Uh, that'd be an antelope.
Alright, who's the smartarse that stole the "Edgar" from my post? It was there in the preview, and gone as soon as I hit "Submit".
Minor correction:
He signed the letter Dr. David Villanueva Nuñez.
Thank you for pointing out that Villanueva is his family name, rather than Nuñez. That form of name construction is extremely unusual to anglophones, so we could probably be forgiven for thinking Nuñez is correct.
However, he did sign his letter Dr. David Villanueva Nuñez. I rather susupect that he worked very hard for his doctorate, so please, use the proper way of addressing Dr. Villanueva.
Thank you.
You raise an interesting point. While I have not had the opportunity to read the actual Bill (slashdotted, naturally), it seems from Dr. Nuñez' response, that it is aimed squarely at general purpose software such as operating systems, desktop software and servers.
I have to wonder whether the same rules and guidelines also apply to custom software commissioned by the government.
OK, so I have never even been to an internet cafe, but I think this idea might work.
Offer a back room for hire. This would be an isolated lan (optionally connected) with about 12-20 lan points dotted around the room and a matching number of desks and chairs.
You could hire it out for training courses, lan parties, or small user group meetings. If you had some spare machines, you could even run some basic courses yourself.
You could also use it to run $FRAGFEST tournaments for your regular gamers, offering free 'net time as prizes. (What rabid gamer wouldn't LOVE the chance to frag for bandwidth?)
During the off hours, leave it connected and let people bring in their laptops and do their research, correspondence or whatever.
Maybe so, but I'll bet that both people in support are really pissed off at being lumped in with the sales and marketing folk!
(thoop thoop) Hey! This thing ISN'T on!
Let alone what day of week it is.
Seriously, I used to do rotating shift work and typically sleep for 4 -6 hours a day. Occasionally when going from one shift to another, I would sleep for 12 or more hours. Waking up after a sleep like that is really confusing. I really couldn't tell whether the time on the clock referred to AM or PM.
I think it's largely perception of time that gets distorted with age.
You see - at 10 years old, 1 year is a tenth of the total time you have experienced. Pretty significant, no?
At 30 years old, 1 year is still 1 year, but it is now a much less significant fraction of the total time you have experienced.
The trickle-down effect is how. If it's policy that OSS be used in government offices, that policy then permeates to schools, libraries, police and armed forces, hospitals, and all manner of government and semi-government infrastructure. Also, anyone who wants to exchange documents with the government needs to do so in open and accessible formats, ruling out MS-Word, MS-Excel and similar proprietary formats (are there any other word processors or spreadsheets left which still use closed formats?) Get rid of the need to create and read those proprietary file formats and you remove the single largest incentive for license evasion*. OK so that may not be a huge number of people, but does become a significant proportion of those people who have any contact with computers.
* License evasion kinda sounds like tax evasion, which many people feel is a soft and victimless crime, just like copying copyrighted software. How about we use that instead of the harsher, more violent "piracy", eh?
This is a great idea, but your symbol, outside of the philosophy behind it, does not convey "openness". To my mind, the heavy bold outline enclosing the o and the c suggests restriction and lock in, which is probably not what you want to convey.
I would have suggested using a pair of open handswith their palms up, similar to the charades sign (sign language as well?) for a book. The open hands imply openness, of course, but also convey the impression of a gift, which is a much more positive idea.
As copylefted material is explicitly copyrighted as well, this symbol could still be used in conjunction with the traditional copyright symbol, and it would signify that there is more than just copyright to this work.
Just a thought.
Mr. Dobson is actually talking about full contact chess.
Well I'm not real sure about MCP's security model. But yes, the Burroughs boxes were stack based systems, so you're probably right about the security.
Sperry's OS-1100 was the one that had PC's running Xenix as system consoles. 0r perhaps the Xenix consoles weren't until OS-2200.
To be honest, I never really had that much to do with Sperry, Burroughs or Unisys kit. I just picked up a few snippets from a few of the people at work who did.
(back on topic)
I really have to wonder if "Tron" used the name MCP because of Burroughs' systems of the day, or if it was a pure coincidence. It even stands for he same three words in both cases.
Nothing.
From this pageIn 1982, Sperry had something called OS1100
And Burroughs had A-Series mainframes running an OS called...
wait for it...
MCP!
I kid you not!
They have submitted RFC's on the MS WOrd format. Their submissions were answered with:
Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, we are unable to publish it in its current format. Please resend the attachment as plain text.
Agreed.
But Word does not even necessarily make things easier for collaboration.
Example: In a meeting with the IT staff of another company, we were discussing the contents of a particular MS Word document that they had sent us. But their fonts/default Word preferences/printers/whatever were slightly different from ours. So although we both used MS Word in order to be able to reference the same material efficiently, we weren't even on the same page...Literally.
Using PDF would probably have solved that little hassle.
If it's truly random data, this compression/decompression is actually VERY easy. Compression: Strip 99 bytes out of every hundred.
Decompression: Insert 99 random bytes in between every byte.
What's that? You want the SAME data back? Why does it matter? It's pure random data anyway!
Oh yeah. Have they announced a DE-compression routine yet? (I know "lossless" sort of implies that they have one, but I didn't see anything about decompression, only compression)
Marketing rubbish as usual.
The brain would probably correlate the signals from the new eye with the signals from the remaining natural eye, and begin to train itself that way. Perhaps even restoring true binocular vision. But only in a few rather limited circumstances.
Having no existing signal to provide such correlation would exclude people totally blind in both eyes.
If sight in both eyes had already begun failing do to a degenerative condition, the new eye would have a degraded signal to correlate against, and would quite possibly retrain to the same degraded standard.
It seems that this would be most useful in cases where a degenerative condition had been diagnosed prior to symptoms becoming too severe. Presumably, the new eye would not suffer from the same degenerative condition, and even though it is retrained to a degraded standard, would not degrade further.
And no, IANAN (neurologist).